# vestibulum
## English
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin vestibulum (“a forecourt, entrance court; an entrance”). Doublet of vestibule.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /vɛˈstɪb.jəl.əm/
* Rhymes: -ɪbjʊləm

### Noun

vestibulum (plural vestibula)
* (zootomy) A cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open.
* (anatomy) The vestibule of the ear.

#### Derived terms

* vestibular
* vestibulo-

### References

* “vestibulum”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

## Latin
### Etymology

Uncertain. Possibilities include:
* From vestiō (“to dress, clothe, vest”) +‎ -bulum (“place, location”, nominal suffix).
* From unattested *vestis ("a feeding") or *vestus ("fed"), from the Proto-Indo-European root *wes- (“to graze”).
* For *verostabulum, from unattested *verus or *verum ("door") (cf. aperiō) and stabulum.
* From verrō (“I sweep”)
* From unattested *vestis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéstis, which is equivalent to Old English wist (“being,existence”)
* From vestis +‎ stabulum
* From vē- +‎ stabulum

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /u̯esˈti.bu.lum/, [u̯ɛs̠ˈt̪ɪbʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /vesˈti.bu.lum/, [vesˈt̪iːbulum]

### Noun

vestibulum n (genitive vestibulī); second declension
* (literally) enclosed space between the entrance of a house and the street, forecourt, entrance court
    Coordinate term: ātrium
** (transferred sense) entrance (to anything)
    Synonyms: iānua, ingressus, līmen, initium, porta, ingressiō, foris
    Antonym: abitus
* (figurative) beginning
    Synonyms: initium, prīmōrdium, prīncipium, līmen, orīgō, exordium
    Antonym: fīnis
** 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.45:in vestibulo templi DianaeIn the vestibule of Diana's temple

#### Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: vestíbul
* → English: vestibulum
* → French: vestibule
** → English: vestibule
** → German: Vestibül
** → Romanian: vestibul
** → Russian: вестибюль (vestibjulʹ)
* → Galician: vestíbulo
* → Italian: vestibolo
* → Piedmontese: vestìbul
* → Polish: westybul
* → Portuguese: vestíbulo
* → Russian: вестибюль (vestibjulʹ)
* → Slovak: vestibul
* → Spanish: vestíbulo

### References

* “vestibulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “vestibulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* vestibulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* vestibulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “vestibulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “vestibulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vestibulum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 671
* ↑ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “vestibulum”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 774